Introduction
Once upon a time, a race known as the Shadow Angels attacked Earth to harvest the life force of all those who inhabited the planet. Thanks to some outrageous miracle, the Shadow Angels went dormant, and humanity was able to live another 12,000 years without fearing their presence. But 11 years after a catastrophe dubbed the Holy Genesis brought ruin to the Earth, the Shadow Angels were stirred from their slumber and resumed the attacks once more.
To give humanity somewhat of a chance, an organization known as DEAVA was formed, and use of a robotic weapon named Aquarion has been authorized. In order for the Aquarion to be brought to full power, three pilots must combine their hearts, bodies, and souls into one—a feat few can hope to accomplish. Thus, the search for so-called 'Element Users' was prioritised, hoping to ensure humanity's future.
Sousei no Aquarion follows the story of Apollo, a near-feral young man brought up in poverty, who is believed to be a legendary hero reincarnated. After his best friend is taken by the Shadow Angels, Apollo chooses to become an Aquarion pilot. Will he be able to turn the tides of the war, and free humanity from the threat of the Shadow Angels for once and for all?
Audience reviews
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jkalyana
Its been a long time since I saw such a bad anime. Now the review I am writing is keeping in mind the time at which this was released.
The story is like a mish mash of NGE, RaXephon, mecha link etc. The art and the art detail are not that great. Sound is bad. This concept of souls merging when the robots merge gives a very. ahh how do I say in better words, I can't say, so its erotic and has an erotic sound with all characters screaming ahh, oohh, I have never felt this before etc. You get the point. It fails on multiple levels.
I have an image of the mecha merge to emphasize what I said, but unfortunately I couldn't find any way to add a picture :(
Read at the sourceKillerZombi
I found the story of Sousei no Aquarion borrowed heavily from other anime's from the 90's and I would have liked to see an original story. As well, I don't think Aquarion knew what kind of anime it was as it tried to combine too many kinds of anime in one series. I also found that there were too many filler episodes that brought up new ideas that were never followed up on.
For its time, the CGI of the mechas in Aquarion were pretty good. If one were to compare the CGI to an anime made in 2015 then the CGI would look clunky. I also found that the animation has aged well over time.
I found the music and the opening themes enjoyable and the English VA's were pretty good for their roles. I didn't find any of the voices to be annoying.
I found that each of the main characters fit easily into…
Read at the sourceROBO-D
Generic filler.
If I had a few words to describe Genesis of Aquarion that is what I would say about it. This was something I was so hyped on watch for the longest time and when the time came I was let down by it.
Story 4/10
I was not very impressed by it story. It starts off pretty good but after like the 2nd Episode the rest of the series becomes filler. The pacing was very slow and the climax of the story just made me say "Finally its done." It was very predictable in every way. Honestly with all the filler this series was they could have taken the series and made it a 6 episode OVA and told the same events. The filler it brought wasn't even that special. They tried adding in so many elements that made me feel like this wasn't really about Aquarion anymore. [like the vampire episode].…
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«Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. »
— Scott Adams.
This is my very first review so understand that it may not be as rational and objective as it presumptively should, but for me anime is a form of art, and art isn’t supposed to be rational. With this statement made, let the show begin.
First of all, Sousei no Aquarion was an anime that draw my attention from its presentation poster. I know it sounds stupid or a little ignorant from me judging a book for its cover, but I admit that most animes that I watch are normally chose that way, and I rarely go wrong with the choices I make within my own anime taste.
Aquarion wasn’t different. Despite of being a mecha, and I’m not quite fond of mecha animes, it managed to surprise me in a different…
Read at the sourceSnakeskins
I am going to try and sum this anime up in as few words as humanly possible, okay here goes: "Go! orgasm powered robot of DOOM!" There I did it, I could end this review right now and proudly say that I left nothing out but id rather keep going.
Story: This is about a bunch of teens/young adults piloting robots as they fight the shadow angels of atlantia. Heres the thing, the robots have to "merge" and at the end of the "merging" process the three (yeah it just became a 3-way) pilots all seem to end up having simoltanius orgasms. Just whatever happenned to waiting to merge until marriage!? Back to buisness and all jokes aside. They fight the shadow angels because the shadow angels are basically farming the humans to maintain their own lives, and humanity aint having it so how better to fig…
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Aquarion is a 2000-era giant fighting robot series that may seem appealing, but fails to deliver in absolutely every aspect. This might be quite a broad judgment to make, but here’s to hoping that you read this review before consuming 26 episodes, which, like fast-food, may seem appealing but ultimately is both unsatisfying and terrible for you. If you’ve already forced yourself through the ordeal that is Aquarion, I can only hope that you take solace in the fact that there are other people who aren’t afraid to express how truly mediocre it is.
STORY: Aquarion’s story is overwrought with unnecessary narrative structure. Old shows that followed a similar formula (Mazinger, GoGaiGar, Gundam) simply opened a world to their audiences which the combat is justified and there’s an overarching g…
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Sousei no Aquarion is a mecha anime written by Kawamori Shoji, best known for his work on the Macross series and Escaflowne. Is Aquarion going to be on par with his other works? Let's take a look and find out.
The story is pretty basic, there are beings called shadow angels who have emerged for the first time in twelve thousand years to harvest energy from humans. The events of the two time periods are connected but I can't explain exactly how without giving spoilers. Most of the episodes have very little to do with the overarching story. The events of most episodes follow a basic pattern. Agents of the shadow angels appear, this leads to a giant robot fight in which Aquarion randomly develops a technique to gain victory and said technique is never used again. Honestly, it's like they're…
Read at the sourceSevenKnights
Let me start by saying that I only watched this season because I was interested after getting caught up with EVOL (Aquarion season 2). I thoroughly enjoyed this season for the most part. The music was great, scenes were touching, the whole shabang. But like every show, it had it's cons.
In this case I couldn't stand the fact that it took 24 episodes for Apollo + Silvia to embrace each other and show any sort of outward feelings for each other. We are talking 7/8 of the series deep into the story and now they start saying how much the other means to them (and not even deep stuff either, this is like a 10 sec thing). The fact that they were forbidden lovers in the past and the fact that they both acknowledged the fact that they were lovers in their former lives AND they both have the memor…
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I've been waiting a long time to give this anime a terrible review somewhere.
If you have ever watched any other mecha anime you have already seen every single thing that happens in this anime. The art is pretty good, sometimes even really cool, the music I didn't notice which generally means there was nothing wrong with it.
Really, from an artistic point of view this anime is fine. There's nothing wrong with the visuals. I'd even go so far as to say they're great! The trouble starts when we move on to the writing side of things. The story just sort of plods along for episode after episode, with not nearly as much plot development as one would have hoped for. The villains just sort of mope about, sending out generic mecha monster after generic mecha monster.
Maybe I could have looked p…
Read at the sourceTorii-chan
Aquarion is about a group of younger warriors who fight in mechs against an alien race called Shadow Angels. Two of the warriors Silvia and Apollo were lovers two thousand years ago that are supposed to bring victory to their cause.
Story 7/10: It's decent. I like the fact that two characters (Apollo & Silvia) get a second chance to bring their love about and win against the winged race. There is a fair amount of plot development as well, which is nice. Basically the winged race (Shadow Angels) harvest human souls to give life to their tree so that they can rule once again. Apollo meeting Silvia (Apollonius and Siren in their past life) has a change of heart and leaves the winged one's race by ripping his wings off and joining in Siren's cause. As it turns out though, Silvia is a winged…
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The only reason i watched this anime was b/c it was always on the Funimation Channel.
I'll cut right to the point: Horrible story, No character development....so why watch it? I found it to be hilarious...even when not intentioned. (I wouldve given this show a 3 but the humor gave it a bump up.) This really should be filed under comedy only. Its such a bad mash up of cliched scenarios and stereotypical characters under the mecha genre umbrella, how can you not laugh? In addition, the intentioned humor was amusing to almost compensate for its shortcomings...almost. But all in all, it was a waste of time...if u need a good laugh there are a few episodes that had me rofling ( eps 3 and 18)
Story:
Unoriginal and flat premise of a post apocalyptic world destroyed by Shadow Angles ( humanity…
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Can something be better than the sum of its parts?
That’s the question that I had to ask myself as I finished watching Sousei no Aquarion, because at its core, this is a show that is fundamentally flawed in a number of areas, but at the same time, I found myself enjoying it throughout. Thus I have to wonder if it’s a good show, even if I don’t think the individual parts are good.
The story of Aquarion isn’t that much different from most of the other giant robot shows you may have seen over the years. Humans are being harvested by a race of beings called the Shadow Angels, and the only method they have to fight back are three ships called Vectors, which have to be piloted by Elementals, and can join together to create the giant robot Aquarion. The show doesn’t stray far from convention at…
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Sousei no Aquarion is..unique. Unique in how it surpasses anything else I've seen at being uninspired, generic, and boring. I am truly proud that I finished this show because it was one of the more difficult things I've done involving anime.
Story - 1:
Extremely generic. Sousei no Aquarion is about a young male who is unknowingly the reincarnation of some great hero. He must rise up and prove his naysayers wrong by defeat the arrogant enemy while proving that humanity is not inferior.
Now, being generic isn't a bad thing. There are plenty of shows that take a generic plot and refine it or expand upon it. Not Sousei no Aquarion. It will stick to this proven formula. Although this isn't the making of a great show, it would be passable if other aspects of the show were much more impressive.…
Read at the sourceDjNastyDevice
The science fiction series is an homage to the Super Robot shows of the 1970s and 1980s, executed with modern animation techniques and aesthetics.
Set in the future, a giant fighting machine called Aquarion is humanity's only weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced species called the Shadow Angels.
I watch mostly mecha anime and this is good but not top of the line. Graphics are good 2D+3D but the story is not one of best i have seen forom mecha. I recommend this if you run out of Macross Frontier,Gundam,Herioc Age and other top mecha series.
plot more detailed:
Eleven years before the start of the series, a disaster only referred to as the "Great Catastrophe" destroyed significant parts of the world and killed off many of its inhabitants. Along with the disaster came th…
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Story: 7/10
Ugh, your usual staple of post-apocalyptic kind of world setting + a handful of young (duh? does it have to be young?) ones who can ONLY save the planet + a gigantic ton of metal that the young ones can only pilot + a race of nearly alien (or not) beings that can destroy shi* everywhere in the world = Sousei no Aquarion. Sounds familiar right? We all have our share of EVA, Raxhephon, Zeorymer, TTGL, etc. experiences and yet they are still popular despite mecha fanatics' swooning over GARness and teamwork blah blah.
Art:8/10
Sunrise did a pretty good job in animating this with artistic European backdrops, beautiful setting sun effects and dazzling flashes of light on transformation scenes and others. Character art ain't too bad too but it did get a bit confusing (I think the gr…
Read at the sourceTheLlama
Aquarion is an homage to older mecha series, and that is easily seen when you watch it. Personally, I haven't watched a lot of older mecha series, so I can't exactly spout out examples of it copying them. But I've talked with people who are experienced with them, and the one mecha from the 90s which I've watched (NGE) is enough to prove my example of how similar it is.
The setting is - not surprisingly - a futuristic world, where a form of higher beings - in this case Shadow Angels - show themselves for the first time in thousands of years. There is only one organization - in this case DEAVA - who can fight against them, due to their possession of mecha robots - in this case the Vectors/Aquarions.
The male protagonist (Apollo) is a reincarnation of a fallen Shadow Angel, Apollonius, who…
Read at the sourceBishounen_Hunter
Here is my abbreviated review for this series using it's three major components: the Look factor, the Sound factor and it's Story factor. By looking at things this way, it's more apparent that Genesis Aquarion is not really all that great of an anime.
-The Look gets a mediocre score due to its promisings of beautiful character and set designs that gets wiped out and overshadowed by overuse of CGI and excessive scene looping.
-The Sound is excellent and worth 5 stars all on it's own merit.
-The Story,which is scattered, illogical and incomplete is the shows weakest link and receives the lowest score.
*Story*
I don't think there's any real plot or point to this anime except maybe for marketing purposes, kinda like the Hasbro cartoons of the 80's like G.I. Joe, He-Man or Jem which were bas…
Read at the sourceHuntsman
A decent show, but nothing to set it apart.
Aquarion takes place 11 years after a great disaster destroys most of Earth. Along with the destruction came beings called Shadow Angels who have been asleep for thousands of years, and begin to harvest humans and extract their life force. Ordinary human weapons are ineffective against the Shadow Angels, that's where the organization called Deava comes in creating machines to fight against the Dark Angels called Vectors. The Vectors can also combine to form a giant robot. The story takes off years later and follows Apollo who might be a reborn hero from thousands of years ago.
I'm going to begin with the things I didn't like about the show than to the things I did like.
1. This show just seemed to blend RahXephon, Eureka Seven and Evangelion t…
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To everyone with similar tastes to mine: Watch this series when you are absolutely bored out of your mind.
The creator was obviously trying to cross gundam with some other shojo series and in the hype forgot all about a simple thing called Plot. So don't expect much there. The interesting part was the past relationships, which (btw) becomes totally meaningless by the end. I don't even know why the creator even bothered?!
As for the characters, a load of them should have died off or become part of the quiet background. Amazingly, the only interesting character was the main (Apollo). Which, I must add, is just sad since he doesn't change at all through the whole series. Which made me wonder just what is the point of having such a static main character??
The animation/art is pretty modern s…
Read at the sourceWasabi
Sousei no Aquarion is a mecha anime that is similar to Evagelion and RahXephon. Just another anime about humans fighting against a form of higher being, in this case, the Shadow Angels.
Story: The plot is pretty slow. It may seem the plot throws you right into action, which it does, but it does not move the plot much until the last few episodes. It follows a pretty generic line with very few twists here and there. The whole show seems pretty episodic save the finale.
Art: The art is unique in its own way. The characters have unique designs to them and the mecha are pretty unique as well. The backgrounds are nice but sometimes feel as if they were sloppily painted on. The character designs and mecha are pretty much the saving grace of the artwork.
Sound: The musical score is pretty much…
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